I have a super column family for which over the time need to remove a range of super columns. I searched around, didn't seem to find a solution for that using hector. Can anyone please help?
You'll have to do a column slice first to get the columns you want to delete, then loop through and generate a list of mutations. You can then send all these mutations to Cassandra in one Hector call:
Mutator<..> mutator = HFactory.createMutator(keyspace, serializer);
SuperSlice<..> result = HFactory.createSuperSliceQuery(keyspace, ... serializers ...)
.setColumnFamily(cf)
.setKey(key)
.setRange("", "", false, Integer.MAX_VALUE)
.execute()
.get();
for (HSuperColumn<..> col in result.getSuperColumns())
mutator.addDeletion(key, cf, col.getName(), serializer);
mutator.execute();